Relief fragment: branch of a plane tree with flying bird

Classification

relief

Culture

Roman

Dimensions

23 × 29 cm

Date

first half of the 1st century A.D.

Period

Early Imperial Period (1st century)

Material

marble analysis ; Göktepe marble

Iconography

branch ; bird

Findspot

Rome (city)

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

4827

Hyp-3890

References

Hekler 1929, 146–147, no. 140; Bencze, HWA 2012 Spring; Bencze, in Ókor 11/2 (2012), 65–66, fig. 1

The relief fragment depicts a branch of a plane tree with the remains of a bird's wing. The skill of Imperial period sculptors is illustrated by the virtuoso carving of the relief.

Marble analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the relief was made of Göktepe marble. Click here for the detailed results.

Trails

Roman variations on themes of Polykleitos and Kephisodotos

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.